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Review: An Imperfect Christmas by Tanya Jean Russell

by Claire Herbaux | Dec 30, 2020 | Christmas, Fiction, Readers Corner

We review an Imperfect Christmas by Tanya Jean Russell for our book of the month. Spoiler: It could just be the story we all need right now.

Book Review: The Boy with Two Hearts, by Hamed Amiri

by Claire Herbaux | Oct 28, 2020 | Autobiography, Readers Corner

In 2000, Hamed Amiri’s family has to leave Afghanistan. They need protection from the Taliban, who want to execute his mother, and need medical help for his older brother Hussein, who has a rare heart condition.

Review: Contempt by Michael Cordell

by Claire Herbaux | Sep 30, 2020 | Fiction, Readers Corner

It’s been a while since a book was this captivating and held me for so long, I read it in two sittings. Whenever you think you know what it going on, it’s going in a different direction. Just like in prison, you can’t trust anyone – or any rules and it is never certain who will survive.

Review: Across the Winding River

by Claire Herbaux | Aug 26, 2020 | Fiction, Readers Corner

After more than 50s years, Beth and her 90-year-old father open a box of mementos from his time fighting in World War Two. Among those is a photo of her father Max with a woman.
Told from the perspective of Beth, of Max while he was a medic at the front, and of a young German flight captain working in Berlin in the 1930s and 1940s…